Solar Return
I had a really great day today on my Solar Return. My intention for the day, aside from sheer enjoyment, was to receive hints about my life path or characteristics about myself I should know.
The day started with Contact Improv at EDAM. I was hesitant to go but I decided to take a chance and put myself out there. It went well, I felt. I learned a lot and had a good workout. It was interesting to move with the different bodies in the space, to experience myself in different movement contexts and with different people. It was also really heartening to move with Adolpho. In the past weeks I felt it would be nice to dance on my birthday, but i didn't anticipate it it would take on this form. After dancing with others in the space, dancing with Adolpho toward the end felt very special to me. I feel so safe and loved with him... the warmth and care of his body, his grounded and solid nature... it just felt so right. And despite my shortcomings and all the things I am excitedly awaiting the opportunity to learn about dance, today showed me that I have potential. So I am happy that I gave things a chance!
Afterward Adolpho and I headed back to my place. He made me a really delicious cake from scratch, using so many ingredients, like quinoa cooked in various teas, different kinds of chocolate such as Madagascar chocolate that he had stashed away for special occasions, coffee, citrus, hazelnuts, and other really fine quality ingredients. He and I shared a couple small pieces this evening before laying down together, so there is still a whole cake in my fridge! Yum yum! He sang me happy birthday and put a candle on the cake for me. Such a kind and loving man, I feel so blessed and gracious to be with him! My wish for this year: to have happiness and fulfillment beyond my wildest dreams. :)
We laid down together and had a short nap, made out a bunch, and cuddled. We didn't have sex but we talked a bit about what it's like to have sex together. Because he has to get up at 5am, he opted to go home later, but he was back and forth about it because he said that he finds the sex we have very nourishing. I found it interesting that he put it in that way, but it's true. Although it is somewhat physically depleting to have sex, I find it also gives me something that I need, and not because of the fact that it's sex, but because of the special connection we share. After that, we hotly debated what to do next. The plan was dinner on the town somewhere but it's always a challenge to extricate ourselves from one another when we are physically close. He made me promise that in the future we won't sacrifice plans because of malaise or getting sucked into laziness. I promised. That's not my cup of tea either. So we pushed on with the night and went to Kitome sushi in Kitsilano.
It was actually a really refined dining experience. Expensive, but worth it for a special occasion. The flavours and ingredients were shipped in from different places in the world, primarily Japan. We ate a piece of fish that was delivered fresh and unfrozen from New Zealand just yesterday! Their ingredients were sourced organically and their combinations were really yummy... like age dashi pumpkin, duck meatballs, Japanese custard, karaage chicken with mayo, black cod soup, assorted sashimi, and others I'm not remembering just now. The chef there, whose name I'm forgetting, asked to come see me for acupuncture.
Then I drove Adolpho home. It would've been nice to spend the night with him but he has to be up at 5am for work, and despite temptation it was decided that he better go home and rest there. I'll see him tomorrow after my client anyway.
So... some key words that came to me today, which resonated deeply with my experiences today and with things I know are meant to be in my life at this point:
- good music, international fusion, ecclectic
- dancing, embodiment, movement, warming up, sensuality
- different kinds of conscious people, friendliness, permissiveness
- artistry, creativity, expansion, novelty
- love, companionship, partnership, "the dance"
- exploration, learning, growth, adventure
- abundance, magic, guidance, synchronicity
- refinement, high quality, fine ingredients, attention to detail
- laughter, humour, levity, fun
- nourishment, closeness, intimacy
- nature, other kinds of life, communion
- graciousness, gratitude, appreciation, kindness, care, respect
- travel, culture, language, different realities
Anne from Germany had a brief interaction with me on Facebook today, and we said each other's Chinese names for the first time in a long time. Tonight when I ate food at the Japanese place, some of the flavours transported me back to Asia, and into memories of my time there. It wasn't just the mental memory but also the body memory... what it was like to be in the energy of the place, and the people I knew there. The duck meatballs made me thing of the sheng jian bao (the ones that squirt) that I used to eat with Michael, or the pork baozi I would get at the corner near the college. These memories lead to an opening in my body... in my heart and in my gut... an expansive feeling, of what it's like to be in different realities, living out different epistemologies around the world.
I have a feeling that 2017 is going to be game changing for me. It's not just about praying or hoping, I already feel the shift. I'm calling more of this good stuff in. It's just going to build from here. Things are going to be epic on a scale I have never imagined before -- or at least, whatever happens will carry that positive impact.
My animal medicine cards for today:
1) Salmon: Inner knowing and Wisdom -- refers to knowing what to do next based on intuition and inner knowing
2) Badget: Aggressiveness -- being productively angering, aggressively cutting away what no longer grows corn, using your power of healing to actively shape your own path
3) Black Panther: Embracing the Unknown -- not trying to predict the future or the magic that's at work, but trusting that the right thing will happen at the right time without worrying or controling
Here's to a wonderful 32!
The day started with Contact Improv at EDAM. I was hesitant to go but I decided to take a chance and put myself out there. It went well, I felt. I learned a lot and had a good workout. It was interesting to move with the different bodies in the space, to experience myself in different movement contexts and with different people. It was also really heartening to move with Adolpho. In the past weeks I felt it would be nice to dance on my birthday, but i didn't anticipate it it would take on this form. After dancing with others in the space, dancing with Adolpho toward the end felt very special to me. I feel so safe and loved with him... the warmth and care of his body, his grounded and solid nature... it just felt so right. And despite my shortcomings and all the things I am excitedly awaiting the opportunity to learn about dance, today showed me that I have potential. So I am happy that I gave things a chance!
Afterward Adolpho and I headed back to my place. He made me a really delicious cake from scratch, using so many ingredients, like quinoa cooked in various teas, different kinds of chocolate such as Madagascar chocolate that he had stashed away for special occasions, coffee, citrus, hazelnuts, and other really fine quality ingredients. He and I shared a couple small pieces this evening before laying down together, so there is still a whole cake in my fridge! Yum yum! He sang me happy birthday and put a candle on the cake for me. Such a kind and loving man, I feel so blessed and gracious to be with him! My wish for this year: to have happiness and fulfillment beyond my wildest dreams. :)
We laid down together and had a short nap, made out a bunch, and cuddled. We didn't have sex but we talked a bit about what it's like to have sex together. Because he has to get up at 5am, he opted to go home later, but he was back and forth about it because he said that he finds the sex we have very nourishing. I found it interesting that he put it in that way, but it's true. Although it is somewhat physically depleting to have sex, I find it also gives me something that I need, and not because of the fact that it's sex, but because of the special connection we share. After that, we hotly debated what to do next. The plan was dinner on the town somewhere but it's always a challenge to extricate ourselves from one another when we are physically close. He made me promise that in the future we won't sacrifice plans because of malaise or getting sucked into laziness. I promised. That's not my cup of tea either. So we pushed on with the night and went to Kitome sushi in Kitsilano.
It was actually a really refined dining experience. Expensive, but worth it for a special occasion. The flavours and ingredients were shipped in from different places in the world, primarily Japan. We ate a piece of fish that was delivered fresh and unfrozen from New Zealand just yesterday! Their ingredients were sourced organically and their combinations were really yummy... like age dashi pumpkin, duck meatballs, Japanese custard, karaage chicken with mayo, black cod soup, assorted sashimi, and others I'm not remembering just now. The chef there, whose name I'm forgetting, asked to come see me for acupuncture.
Then I drove Adolpho home. It would've been nice to spend the night with him but he has to be up at 5am for work, and despite temptation it was decided that he better go home and rest there. I'll see him tomorrow after my client anyway.
So... some key words that came to me today, which resonated deeply with my experiences today and with things I know are meant to be in my life at this point:
- good music, international fusion, ecclectic
- dancing, embodiment, movement, warming up, sensuality
- different kinds of conscious people, friendliness, permissiveness
- artistry, creativity, expansion, novelty
- love, companionship, partnership, "the dance"
- exploration, learning, growth, adventure
- abundance, magic, guidance, synchronicity
- refinement, high quality, fine ingredients, attention to detail
- laughter, humour, levity, fun
- nourishment, closeness, intimacy
- nature, other kinds of life, communion
- graciousness, gratitude, appreciation, kindness, care, respect
- travel, culture, language, different realities
Anne from Germany had a brief interaction with me on Facebook today, and we said each other's Chinese names for the first time in a long time. Tonight when I ate food at the Japanese place, some of the flavours transported me back to Asia, and into memories of my time there. It wasn't just the mental memory but also the body memory... what it was like to be in the energy of the place, and the people I knew there. The duck meatballs made me thing of the sheng jian bao (the ones that squirt) that I used to eat with Michael, or the pork baozi I would get at the corner near the college. These memories lead to an opening in my body... in my heart and in my gut... an expansive feeling, of what it's like to be in different realities, living out different epistemologies around the world.
I have a feeling that 2017 is going to be game changing for me. It's not just about praying or hoping, I already feel the shift. I'm calling more of this good stuff in. It's just going to build from here. Things are going to be epic on a scale I have never imagined before -- or at least, whatever happens will carry that positive impact.
My animal medicine cards for today:
1) Salmon: Inner knowing and Wisdom -- refers to knowing what to do next based on intuition and inner knowing
2) Badget: Aggressiveness -- being productively angering, aggressively cutting away what no longer grows corn, using your power of healing to actively shape your own path
3) Black Panther: Embracing the Unknown -- not trying to predict the future or the magic that's at work, but trusting that the right thing will happen at the right time without worrying or controling
Here's to a wonderful 32!